Adrian, Janick and Dave's guitars and Steve's basses
matic22
Ancient Mariner
It seems like he was switching back and forth. Possibly putting SD in neck to get more output, like he does with JB's now.
matic22
Ancient Mariner
Yup, and Adrian hated it. Black Lado was fitted with a gold Floyd during World Slavery tour. Silver Lado followed, but it's unclear when. Possibly before Somewhere On Tour.
So this is from 1980-1981, probably 1981. It looks like a PAF in the neck position (the picture is not detailed enough to look directily at the pole pieces, but they seem to reflect light a little bit differently, so I'm going to take a guess here and say that it's a PAF and not a Super Distortion in the neck, which would then indicate the possibilty of him recording NOTB with a PAF neck pickup in his Kossoff Strat).
This is the tremolo system he used for a couple of months early during the World Slavery Tour, it's a Rockinger Tru Tune Tremolo.
Adrian Smith also had that tremolo system installed on his two Lado's (now refitted with Floyd Rose Bridges)
Yep, very much possible.
The picture posted above from Mandume definitely looks like a DiMarzio DP103 PAF.
So he might have experimented with it and later switched back to the SuperD.
Those were the analog days so he might just have adjusted whatever tube amp was available in the studio and/or live and adjusted the output the amp needed from the guitars neck pickup according to this. So if the amp did not have enough saturation or distortion on the neck, he would choose the SuperD.
mihai
The Prisoner
It seemed to me that there was much more of the green Jackson in the last shows, but I could be wrong. Also, abandoning the sunburst seemed strange since he enjoyed it a lot and it looked like he preferred it over the other one. Could be something technical or just Adrian rotating axes without any particular reason.
matic22
Ancient Mariner
Or... The weight of it, which is apparently more than a Les Paul.
Green Jackson was always making a comeback, as I called it at the beginning of the tour, since Adrian loves single coils for some cleans, like Powerslave and Killers. Seventh Son with a Lado was just... Strange.
sea.of.madness.1986
Educated Fool
For the Lado lovers, FU-Tone’s official instagram account just posted this great photos of H’s Earths !
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
Yeah. Seventh Son song with Lado is kind of odd, but not that much for me because Adrian played CIPWM with Lado in '88. A really cool one.
matic22
Ancient Mariner
CIPWM was played with that one because of the synth sound during the solo.
Which he hardly ever used (the synth that is).
matic22
Ancient Mariner
Yes, only on the solo of CIPWM. Everything else were the keyboards.
I don't even think it's in the solo, I have some boots from that tour and if it's there, it's extremely subtle (unlike on the album). Either way, the Lazer is a cool guitar, wouldn't mind having one for myself!
matic22
Ancient Mariner
The synth sound is the octave down.I don't even think it's in the solo, I have some boots from that tour and if it's there, it's extremely subtle (unlike on the album). Either way, the Lazer is a cool guitar, wouldn't mind having one for myself!
sea.of.madness.1986
Educated Fool
A great photo from the Infinite Dreams book preview ! 
P.S: Anyone knows what happened to this two axes ?
P.S: Anyone knows what happened to this two axes ?
matic22
Ancient Mariner
Since they are in the book, I'd assume they are in storage like the Lados were until not long ago.
All of the guitars in the book were likely in IM warehouse, apart from Adrian's Destroyer II, which was in Adrian's home studio.
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matic22
Ancient Mariner
Yes, I'm also pretty sure about that. Dave's is mahogany with maple cap.